Steam-heating radiator



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E. M. LINK. STEAM HEATING RADIATOR.

No. 464,159. Patented-Deo. 1,1891.

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E. MyLINK. y STEAM HEATING RADIATOR.- No. 464,159. Patented Deo. 1, 1891.

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ELIJAH M. LINK, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

-sTEAM-HEATI NG RADIATOR;

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nor-164,159, dated December 1, 1891.

Application tiled August '7, 1 890. Serial No. 361.404. A(No model.) y

To ctZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that l, ELIJAH M. LINK, a citizenof the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful -Improvements in Steam-Heatin g Radiators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to steam-heating apparatus; and it consists in improvements in the construction of the radiators, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as applied within a heating-chamber through which air is passed, as is common in many systems for heating buildings, dry-kilns, duc.

The invention relates wholly to the construction of the radiator, the manner or place in which it is used being optional.

The accompanying drawingsillustrate the' invention, as follows:

Figure 1 isa top or plan View of the radiator and part of the surrounding case A. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the radiator. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a View of one of the section-heads in perspective. Fig. 5 shows two of the section-heads in cross-section and one set of connecting-pipe loops in elevation. Fig. 6 shows the section-heads in vertical section on the line a: in Fig. 1.

The letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The construction is as follows: The radiator is made up of sections, of which there are as many as desired. Each section consists of two section-heads B B', such as are seen in Fig. 4, and a series of connecting-pipeloops l), which form passages from one section-head to the other. The section-heads are substantially alike. They consist of a T-head B and a stem or body B', formed in one piece of casting. The stem or body is made with its upper face horizontal and iiat, and its lower side slants from the outer end to the T- head, so that water will drain from the extremity to the T-head. At the outer end of the stem the inner end in the angle formed by the T head there is a shelf-like lug h6. upper face there are ktwo rows of holes d to receive the ends of` the pipe-loops. When laid side by side with their T-heads in opposite directions, and the toe-piece of one rests on the shelf h6 of the other, as is seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and the pipe-loops connect them together. There are two sets of pipe-loops, one of which connects the contiguous rows of holes and the other the outer rows of holes,

shown in Fig. 5. It Willbe seen that-the section-heads of each section when thus constructed are free to expand and contract longitudinally without changing the position of the axial line of the T-heads, and that the condensed water in each section-headwill drain into its T head. The sectionsl are coupled together by putting the T-heads in line, as shown -in Fig. 1, and securing them by outside bolts or rods C, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 6. heads there' is a cap b, closing the ends, and at one end of each line of T-heads there is a spring-seated cap b', which goes over the cap h and contains a coiled spring S. The binding-rods C engage with ears c con the end caps b and spring-seated caps h. The object of the flexible or yielding connection for the expansion and contraction of the rods and Section-heads. l

. It often happens that it is desirable to use exhaust-steam in part of the radiator-sections and live steam in the others. To enable this there is at least one section in each radiator which has its T-heads provided with large nozzles h3, and by placing partitions h2 between such sections as are to use exhauststeam and the others they will be entirely independent of each other. Thus in Fig. 1 there .will be seen to be three of the inner sections partitioned off from the others by the four partitions h2. the partitions can be put in or taken out at any time without otherwise disturbing the radiator.

the latter' arching over the former, 'as clearly there is a square foot or toe piece 57, and aty Along the these section-heads are put together, they are y At the end of each line of T- rods C is to compensate forl the difference in v By loosening the tie-rods C v IOO b4 represents the nozzles for connecting livesteam pipes with the T-heads, and b5 the nozzles for connecting the drip-pipes.

A represents the surrounding case; but this forms no part of the invention.

What I claim as new :is-

l. In the radiator of a steam-heating appav consisting` of a hollow T-head B, a hollow tapering stem B', which drains into the crosshead, a toe-piece 197 at the small end of the said stem, and a shelf or lug b6 at the large end'of the storm-arranged together in successive reverse order, as shown, in combination with pipe-loops D, which connect said sectionheads together in pairs, as set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaflx my signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

ELIJAH l M; LINK.

Witnesses:

JN0. K. HALLocK, CLARK M. QoLE. 

